Ray B. Russell is an English publisher, editor, author, illustrator, songwriter, and film maker.

Biography

Russell runs the award-winning

Tartarus Press Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England.

with

Rosalie Parker Rosalie Parker is an author, scriptwriter and editor who runs the Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Parker jointly won the World Fantasy Award "Special Award: Non-Professional" for publishing in 2002, 2004 and 2012. The Horror Writers Associati ...

, and for many years compiled the ''Guide to First Edition Prices''. As an author he has had four collections of short stories, three novellas and four novels published. His story "Loup-garou" was chosen for

Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award ( Horror Writers Association). Career Datlow began her car ...

’s ''The Best Horror of the Year''. "In Hiding" was nominated for the 2010

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...

, and "The Beautiful Room" for the 2011

British Fantasy Award The British Fantasy Awards (BFA) are awarded annually by the British Fantasy Society (BFS), first in 1976. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards (see August Derleth Award). First awarded in 1972 (to ''The Knight of ...

Michael Dirda Michael Dirda (born 1948) is an American book critic, working for the '' Washington Post''. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Career Having studied at Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree in 1970, Dirda ea ...

has described Russell as "...among the leading practitioners of classic supernatural fiction". His novella, ''Bloody Baudelaire'', has been filmed by 3:1 Cinema with the new title ''

Backgammon Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back at least 1,600 years. The earliest record of backgammo ...

'' and was released 2016. He contributes artwork to Tartarus Press titles, and a selection of his art was on display at the Link Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax, 2010/11. Russell is also a songwriter, having previously composed songs released by The Bollweevils. His first solo CD, ''Ghosts'', was released by Klanggalerie in February 2012. The accompanying video presentation was premiered in Vienna in March 2012, and was subsequently shown at Dean Clough Galleries October 2012. Dean Clough Galleries presented ''The Romance of Shortwave Radio Numbers Stations'' as a video installation in 2018. Russell was the co-creator of C.W. Blubberhouse with

Mark Valentine Mark Valentine is an English short story author, editor and essayist on book-collecting. Short stories Valentine's short stories have been published in a number of collections and in anthologies. ''The Collected Connoisseur'' (Tartarus Press, 201 ...

Writing

Guide to First Edition Prices *Eight editions, Tartarus Press, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 & 2010. Short stories *''Putting the Pieces in Place'', Ex Occidente Press (Bucharest, Romania), 2009. *''Literary Remains'',

PS Publishing PS Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Hornsea, UK. Background PS Publishing was founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther.Swan River Press Swan River Press is an independent Irish publishing company dedicated to Gothic fiction, gothic, Supernatural fiction, supernatural, and Fantasy literature, fantastic literature. It was founded in Rathmines, Dublin in October 2003 by Brian J. Show ...

(Dublin, Ireland), 2014. *''The Stones are Singing'', PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2016. Novels *''She Sleeps'', PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2017. *''Waiting for the End of the World'', PS Publishing (Hornsea, East Yorkshire), 2020. *''Heaven's Hill'', Zagava (Germany), 2021. *''The Woman Who Fell to Earth'', Tartarus Press (Yorkshire), 2024. Collected Edition *''Ghosts'', Swan River Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2012. (Contains ''Putting the Pieces in Place'' and ''Bloody Baudelaire''. Available with ''Ghosts'' CD in a limited edition.) Non-fiction *''Occult Territory: An Arthur Machen Gazetteer'',

Tartarus Press Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England.

(Yorkshire), 2019. *''Past Lives of Old Books and Other Essays'',

Tartarus Press Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England.

(Yorkshire), 2020. *''Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Bibliography'',

Tartarus Press Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England.

(Yorkshire), 2020. *''Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography'',

Tartarus Press Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England.

(Yorkshire), 2022. *''Fifty Forgotten Books'',

And Other Stories And Other Stories is an independent British book publisher founded in 2009, notable for being the first UK publisher of literary fiction to make direct, advance subscriptions a major part of its business model as well as for its use of foreign l ...

(Sheffield), 2022. *''Fifty Forgotten Records'',

Tartarus Press Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England.

(Yorkshire), 2025. Translation *''

Le Grand Meaulnes ''Le Grand Meaulnes'' () is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat autobiographical, especially the name of the ...

'' by Alain-Fournier,

Tartarus Press Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher in Coverdale in North Yorkshire, England.

(Horam, Sussex), 1999.

Music

*''Ghosts'', Klanggalerie (Austria), 2012. *''Bloody Baudelaire: A Soundtrack'', Klanggalerie (Austria), 2014. *''The Romance of Shortwave Radio Numbers Stations'', Persepolis, 2016. *''Copsford'', (self released) 2020. Reissued Bladud Flies! 2021 Reissued Warm Noise 2022 *''Phantom Cities'' by The Sodality of the Shadows, Persepolis, 2020. *''Heaven's Hill'', 7" single, Zagava, 2012.

Film/video

*''Backgammon'', 2016 (co-scriptwriter) *''Coverdale: A Year in the Life'', 2016 (co-director/producer) *''Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales'', 2015 (co-director/producer) *''Current 93: Live at Halifax Minster'', 2014 (co-director/producer) *''Collecting Vinyl Records: A Personal History'', 2012 (director/producer) *''A Mild Case of Bibliomania'', 2011 (director/producer)Film maker's webpage for A Mild Case of Bibliomania
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R. B. Russell

R.B. Russell interviewed (with Rosalie Parker) by Rick Kleffel at the Agony Column Podcast
{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, R. B. Living people English horror writers World Fantasy Award–winning writers Year of birth missing (living people) English male novelists

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